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Socialists: Give apes human rights
Spain Herald

The Spanish Socialist Party will introduce a bill in the Congress of
Deputies calling for "the immediate inclusion of (simians) in the
category of persons, and that they be given the moral and legal
protection that currently are only enjoyed by human beings." The PSOE's
justification is that humans share 98.4% of our genes with chimpanzees,
97.7% with gorillas, and 96.4% with orangutans.

The party will announce its Great Ape Project at a press conference
tomorrow. An organization with the same name is seeking a UN
declaration on simian rights which would defend ape interests "the same
as those of minors and the mentally handicapped of our species."

According to the Project, "Today only members of the species Homo
sapiens are considered part of the community of equals. The chimpanzee,
the gorilla, and the orangutan are our species's closest relatives.
They possess sufficient mental faculties and emotional life to justify
their inclusion in the community of equals."



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